The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary A Dogma is “a truth appertaining to faith or morals, revealed by God, transmitted…
It is said that St. Augustine’s mother, St. Monica, recently widowed and concerned for her wayward son, begged the Blessed Virgin for help. Mary appeared…
At the urging of a group of holy women in Jerusalem, St. Luke, the Evangelist, painted the Black Madonna from life after Jesus’ death, upon…
Around 1547 the Virgin appeared to Leonardo Weißensteiner (Weissensteiner), a pious and righteous local peasant who owns a large farm called Weissenstein, in the locality…
A pious legend has it that Our Lady of Canneto appeared, in the so-called “Capodacqua” area, to a shepherdess named Silvana. The girl was all…
The queenship of Mary, mother of the King of Kings, is a concept with both spiritual and political meaning. “Especially in time of crisis,” as…
In the western Ireland village of Knock, on the rainy evening of August 21, 1879, fourteen people saw three figures bathed in light against the…
There is a sanctuary of the Madonna on the Bergamo Road, about a mile away from the city of Crema, Italy. The structure is a…
The cult of Our Lady of the Chain begun in the year 1392 in Palermo, when King Martin I the Younger reigned in Sicily. Three…
